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Undergrad What is the structure of the electron?
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Graduate Can Mini Black Holes Really Form at the LHC?
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Graduate Theoretical question - what would happen?
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Graduate Law of Impulse Preservation in Positron-Electron Annihilation
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Graduate Can Electrons and Protons Fuse to Form Neutrons?
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Graduate Producing Neutrons: Electron Capture vs Electron-Proton Collisions
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Graduate Why did Matter Beat Out Anitmatter?
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Undergrad Is nuclear fusion radioactive?
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Graduate Milo Wolff: Spherical Standing Wave Structure of Matter
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High School Fission activity at GCSE level
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Graduate Create a Nuclear Bomb: Splitting the Uranium Atom
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Undergrad Understanding Beta Particles and Their Role in Radioactivity | Diagram Included
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Undergrad What happens to the extra electrons in alpha decay?
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Graduate Could Low Temperature Experiments Trigger a Vacuum Decay?
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High School Is there a reaction called nucleus reaction?
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Graduate Help understanding nuclear property
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Graduate Properties of Particles for research
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Graduate Effective neutron multiplication factor
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Graduate Neutron quantum numbers (NEED HELP)
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Graduate Energy reconstruction in calorimeter
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Graduate Charge Independence and Pauli Exclusion Principle
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Keeping track of CERN's development
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Graduate Why Are Higgs Branching Ratios for WW Higher Than ZZ?
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Graduate Can Electrolysis and Cold Fusion Work Together to Generate Energy?
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Undergrad Can Protons Emit and Absorb Any Amount of Energy in the Continuum?
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Graduate How does deuterium interacts with neutrons?
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Graduate Understanding the Difference Between Eta Meson & Eta Prime Meson
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Graduate Discussing Predictions of the LHC: String Theory, LQG, and Beyond
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Graduate Understanding Eta & Eta Prime Mesons
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Undergrad Understanding Neutron Diffusion in Nuclear Reactions
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Graduate Who introduced group theory into quantum field theory?
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Graduate Why are delta-particles so short-lived?
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Graduate Are Elementary Particles Real or Just Theoretical Constructs?
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Graduate Large Hadron Collider Black Holes
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Graduate Lifetime & Branching ratio
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Graduate Fision products, the W coincidence
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Stable Superheavy Elements: Where Are They Hiding?
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Graduate Finding EQ of Motion for Systems of Particles
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Graduate Reactions of captured muons with nuclei
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Graduate How Does Asymptotic Freedom Impact Strong Interactions in QCD?
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Graduate Calculating Suitable Energies for a Muon Lifetime Experiment
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Graduate Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown
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Graduate Interaction Terms: Understanding Lagrangian Setup in 5th Dimension
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Graduate How does the binding energy per nucleon of a nucleus affect its stability?
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Graduate Derive the Lagrangian of a free nonrelativistic particle
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Undergrad Can Methylated Spirits and Liquid Nitrogen Work for a Cloud Chamber?
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Graduate Why Does GEANT4 Calculate a Lower Ionization Cross-Section Than Expected?
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Graduate How is gamma radiation produced within the nucleus?
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Graduate HEP: Definition of Soft Particle & Branching Fractions in GeV
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Graduate Can magnetic resonance weaken nuclei and accelerate nuclear decay?
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Graduate Question about masses and particles(modern physics)
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Graduate Higgs fermion … the march is over … ?
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Graduate What quanta mediates the nuclear forces?
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Undergrad Can neutrino detectors measure energy?
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Graduate What Distinguishes Left-Handed from Right-Handed Fermions?
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Graduate Time translation invariance and the vacuum state
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Graduate Understanding Proton Magnetic Moment: Resistance to Change & Acceleration
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Graduate Quark-Gluon Liquid: Searching the Primeval Universe
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Graduate On spontaneous symmetry breaking and Higgs’s mechanism of mass production
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Graduate Why Are Currents in Matrix Elements Confusing?
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Graduate Photon as electrical force carrier
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Graduate Why Do GUT Theories Only Use Left Spinors?
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Graduate What is charge? Why do fundamental particles possess it?
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Undergrad Understanding Plasma Temperatures: Causes & Effects
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Graduate Are monopoles a problem for all gauge groups in GUT theories?
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Graduate Why Are Force Unification Scales Different in Physics?
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Graduate Thought experiment: Implosion reaction
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Graduate How Does the Neutrino Mass Matrix Connect to Up-Quark Masses?
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Undergrad Can we add or remove a proton?
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Undergrad Constructing a Table. (Radioactivity)
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Graduate What are Preons and How Do They Fit into the Standard Model?
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Undergrad Annihilation and anti-matter interactions
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Graduate Where are the Higgs boson particles
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Graduate The difference between Compton and DeBroglie wavelengths?
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Graduate What Is the Role of J x B in Rotating Magnetic Field Current Drives?
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Graduate Gauge invariance and it's relation to gauge bosons
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Graduate Questioning Proton Mass Measurement and Variation
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Graduate Radiation Physics: Compton Effect & Hi Intensity Photons
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Graduate Help with Understanding D-T Fusion for Class Project
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Undergrad Atomic Half Lives: Calculating Half Life of an Atom
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Graduate The Rest of the Yukawa's Theory
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Graduate Why Are Hadrons Heavier Than Their Quark Components?
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Graduate First Evidence of New Physics in b <-> s Transitions
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Graduate Radiotracer Decay - What's Left?
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Undergrad Higgs field, mass and why particles cling to it?
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Graduate Unparticle physics is currently a very popular research area
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Undergrad What Happens to Beta Particles in Empty Space?
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Who Introduced NCSM and When Was It Introduced?
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Undergrad Quarks in a meson, antibaryon, baryon
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Undergrad Inclusive, semi-exclusive and exclusive nuclear reaction
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Undergrad Neutrino Oscillation: Learn About the Experiment
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Graduate How can I simplify this complex integration for regularization?
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Graduate The different lifetimes of W boson and Pion?
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Graduate Higgs Mechanism: Does it Give Mass to All Particles?
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Graduate Why do some heavy elements prefer beta decay over other forms of decay?
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Graduate Can a neutral pion decay to a neutrino and an anti-neutrino?
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Graduate Relativistic quantum mechanics
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Undergrad How fun is particle physics research? (re:computation work)
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Graduate Gyromagnetic Ratio: Quarks, Gluons, Antiquarks
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